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Oral Academic Genres and Features of Student Academic Presentations
Academic genres are highly specialized and one of the main goals of research into specialized language is to uncover and describe its intricacies so...
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What Lurks in the Peripheries: From Urban Margins to Marginal Genres in Short Stories by Margo Lanagan and Ariadna Castellarnau
This chapter explores the disaggregation and strangeness that increases when urban landscapes merge with suburban panoramas. When trespassing these...
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Writing for Various Academic Purposes and Genres
This chapter overviews the main academic writing genres, ranging from traditional types, such as journal articles, books and book chapters, to those...
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First-mover advantage in music
Why do some songs and musicians become successful while others do not? We show that one of the reasons may be the “first-mover advantage”: artists...
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Debating Genres and IS Research: The Case of Action Principles for Service Automation
Information systems (IS) is a peculiar hybrid wanting often to define itself as a discipline, though it has assembled itself as something that could...
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Alternative Facts, Alternative Genres: Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach
This chapter argues that contemporary writers of literary fiction have turned to genre in the decades-long lead-up to the Trump presidency and...
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Bilingual Students’ Meaning-Making Strategies When Exploring Wordless Picturebooks in Interactive Shared Reading
A limited number of studies have investigated how different genres of wordless picturebooks impact children’s interactions and story creations in the...
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Blurring Genres: An Agenda for Political Studies
The first step in map** a research agenda for Political Science that draws on the Humanities is to describe where we are now. We describe the...
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Measuring nepotism and sexism in artistic recognition: the awarding of medals at the Paris Salon, 1850–1880
From the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, the Paris Salon was the leading visual arts exhibition venue in France—and arguably in all of...
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Cognitive and motivational characteristics as predictors of students’ expository versus narrative text comprehension
Prior research has examined the impact of different cognitive predictors on students’ expository and narrative text comprehension. It has become...
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The implementation of writing pedagogies in the Write to Read intervention in low-SES primary schools in Ireland
This study describes the initial implementation of the writing component of the Write to Read ( W2R ) literacy intervention in eight low-SES...
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Utterance-genre-lifeworld and Sign-habit-Umwelt Compared as Phenomenologies. Integrating Socio- and Biosemiotic Concepts?
This study develops a biosemiotic framework for a descriptive phenomenology. We incorporate the set utterance-genre-lifeworld in biosemiotic theory...
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Commercial video games and cognitive functions: video game genres and modulating factors of cognitive enhancement
BackgroundUnlike the emphasis on negative results of video games such as the impulsive engagement in video games, cognitive training studies in...
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Introduction: Genres as Formula, Genres Beyond Formula
This chapter examines the theoretical blind spots in common uses of the notion of genre in comics studies. It argues that genres cannot be understood...
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Perceptions of Context. Epistemological and Methodological Implications for Meta-Studying Zoo-Communication
Although this study inspects context in general, it is even intended as a prerequisite for a meta-study of contextual time&space in...
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“Where Does the Science Go?”: An Ethnographic Study of Chemistry PhD Students Learning Science Communication Genres
This chapter describes an ethnographic study of four women Chemists: three PhD students and one post-doc researcher, who participated in an ongoing...
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Political Genres of Online Animation: Genre Theory, Animation Studies, and Digital Media
This chapter explores aesthetic potentials of animation relating to audiovisual political communication. Throughout its history, animation—and...
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How online discourse networks fields of practice: The discursive negotiation of autonomy on art organisation about pages
This article examines how the online discourse of art organisations forges relationships between the artworld and the fields of politics and economy....
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Reconceptualisation of Genre(s) in Scholarly and Scientific Digital Practices: A Look at Multimodal Online Genres for the Dissemination of Science
This chapter looks into an online genre resulting from recent scholarly and scientific digital practices: popular science online videos. These are...
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Music therapy in cancer care: unravelling the complexities in LMICs
The past decades have seen the field of oncology becoming far more receptive to integrative oncology. Music therapy has been used...